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This is the second year that the fellowships have been offered to juniors involved in Latin American studies. Last year five students did research in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina on such topics as the social problems of migratory Indians, the background of the 1952 Bolivian revolution, and topics in contemporary. Argentine literature. The grants are made possible through the gift of Albert Gordon and the Kidder, Peabody Foundation...
...this is an exemplary attainment of the goals of the Alliance for Progress, one shudders at the apparent goals. We seem to have here a case, all too common, of looking too much at form and too little at substance. It is indeed true that the Bolivian governors have "obtained electoral reforms and the nationalization of the tin industry, as well as the breaking up of large feudal estates." But of what value are these things, from the standpoint of the masses, if they are worse off than before, if it now costs more to produce Bolivian tin than...
...contrast, Patch spoke briefly on "one of the most conservative of Latin American countries," Peru. He compared the "social mobility" of Bolivian Indians with the rigid class structure of those in the neighboring country...
...Three. Last week, after six months of quiet negotiation, Borgward was finally sold for $14 million-but not to Detroit. The buyer turned out to be Impulsora Mexicana Automotriz, a consortium recently formed by top Spanish Truckmaker Eduardo Barreiros Rodriguez and a covey of Latin American entrepreneurs, including Bolivian Tin King Antenor Patino and Millionaire Mexico City Lawyer Ernesto Santos Galindo...
Married. Jaime Ortiz Patiño, 33, heir to a Bolivian tin fortune; and Nada Takla, 21, a Levantine beauty he met while in Lebanon last summer for a bridge tournament; he for the second time (his first: Manhattan Playgirl Joanne Connelley Sweeny, who died in 1957 while divorce suits were pending); in Geneva...